Thursday, March 19

Registration Open

2:00-3:00 p.m. Registration, Shenandoah University’s Feltner Building, 12-14 North Loudoun Street, Winchester, VA. Please note

that this building is located on the downtown walking mall and is the starting point for the walking tour that begins at 3:00 p.m.

3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. “They…Long to Be Free:” A Walking Tour Exploring Slavery & Resistance in Winchester with Jonathan Noyalas

Hugh & Virginia McCormick Chair in Civil War History, Shenandoah University.

5:00 p.m.: Dutch Dinner and oral history recordings (free flow, all are welcome) Manoletes, 168 N. Loudoun Street, Winchester, VA  Please note that the restaurant is located approximately one block north of the Feltner Building.

Also, please note that between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m., members of Shenandoah University’s Center for Immersive Learning team will be at Manoletes to record brief video statements (approximately 30 seconds) from any attendee who wishes to share what the Virginia Forum means to them. These videos will be compiled and played during the banquet on Friday evening. For logistical reasons, this is the only time participants will have an opportunity to record their statements.

Friday, March 20

8:00 a.m. Registration Open

8:45 a.m.-9:00 a.m.       Welcome Remarks Brandt Student Center (BSC), Ferrari Room

9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.     Concurrent Sessions I

1. The Virginia Civil Rights History Digital Platform Collaboratory, Pruitt Armory

• Moderator: Brian Grogan, Hampden-Sydney College
• Cainan Townsend, The Robert R. Moton Museum
• Aubrey McAuliffe, Argot Nova, LLC
• Edward Coderre, The Digital Ark Corporation

2. Community, Memory, and Preservation: The Historic Schoolhouses of Northern

Virginia BSC 118

• Moderator: Jeff Clark, Fairfax County Public Schools
• Small Schools, Big History: Preserving Educational Heritage in Northern Virginia Shelley Deutch, HSNVA Member, Greater Oakton Community Association
• Passport to the Past: Rediscovering Northern Virginia’s One-Room Schoolhouses Julie Maher, HSNVA Member, The Great Falls Grange Foundation
• Teaching Yesterday, Inspiring Tomorrow: The Historic Schoolhouses of Northern Virginia Lauren Crum, HSNVA Member, Greater Oakton Community Association
• Preserving the Past for the Future Ron Edwards and Shirley Edwards, HSNVA Members, Upper Pohick Community League & Friends of The Sydenstricker Schoolhouse

3: Forting Up in the Backcountry BSC Ferrari Room

• The Archaeology of Frontier Forts in the Greenbrier Valley Kim Arbogast McBride, Greenbrier Valley Archaeology, Inc. Stephen McBride, Greenbrier Valley Archaeology, Inc.
• Resolutions vs. Reality: Wartime Experience in the Greenbrier Valley Sarah E. McCartney, William & Mary

4: On the Threshold: Winchester Women Navigating Their Civil War BSC 123 (BSAC) Also on ZOOM

•  Moderator: Jim Broomall, University of Richmond
• “The Powells in Winchester”: The Resistance of Two Confederate Women and Two Black Women Seeking Freedom Alison Herring, Independent Researcher
• “This record of infamy”: Redefining Boundaries and Social Power in 1862 Winchester Sarah Kay Bierle, Independent Researcher
• “Equally helpless & unprotected”: Freedom and Bondage in Mary Jackson Tuley’s Household During the Civil War Anne Marie Chirieleison, Independent Researcher

10:30-10:45 a.m. BREAK

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.   Concurrent Sessions II

5: Histories and Legacies of Early Virginia BSC Ferrari Room

 Moderator: Jeff Looney, Monticello

• Mapping the Dragon: An Indigenous History of Bacon’s Rebellion Edward DuBois Ragan, Bossier Parish Community College
• “Richly embroidered with…gold:” Staging ‘Virginian princes’ in George Chapman’s The Memorable Masque Elizabeth Sharrett, University of Lynchburg
• Putting the 1716 Spotswood Expedition in Context: Before, During and After the “Knights” Ann L. Miller, Virginia Transportation Research Council
• Alexander Spotswood and the Dog that Didn’t Bark Lori Dixon, Independent Researcher

6: Expanding Public Education in Virginia  BSC 123 (BSAC) Also on ZOOM

Moderator: Dwana Waugh, Sweet Briar College

• The National University: Debates over the Establishment of an Educated Citizenry in the Founding Years of the United States George D. Oberle III, George Mason University
• Revolutions of the Spirit: American Indian Boarding Schools in Virginia and the Struggle for Cultural Survival Linda Sue Warner, San Carlos Apache College
• Competing Narratives of Disability and Race in the Founding of the Virginia State School for Colored Deaf and Blind Children in 1909, Jasper Conner, William & Mary

 7: The Slave, Freedman, and Enslaver: The Story of Monday Robinson BSC 118

Moderator: Rebecca Ebert, Handley Library

• Char McCargo Bah, Finding Things for U, LLC
• Brenda Nelson, Independent Researcher
• Kristen Laise, Belle Grove Plantation

8: Revealing Histories of Enslaved Virginians   Collaboratory, Pruitt Armory

Moderator: Lydia Neuroth, Library of Virginia

• Tracing the Unseen: A Collaborative Approach to Uncovering Enslaved Histories Danielle Eady, Oak Spring Garden Foundation Julie, Oak Spring Garden Foundation
• Tracing Freedom’s Lineage: Finding Descendants of Virginia’s Enslaved Communities Shelley Viola Murphy, Genealogist

12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.    Lunch Sessions  

Virginia Forum Board of Directors Meeting (all are welcome)–BSC 123 (BSAC)

9: Historic Homes of Virginia: The Mary Ball Washington House Collaboratory, Pruitt Armory

• Michael Spencer, University of Mary Washington
• Trenton Hizer, Library of Virginia
• Mark Crutcher, Mutual Assurance

Session includes a 27-minute showing of “Historic Homes of Virginia, The Mary Ball Washington House” with Q&A

 10: Comrade Edna Lewis: The Activist Roots of the Grande Dame of Southern Cooking BSC 118

         Moderator Emma Ito, Virginia Humanities

• Anne McCreary, Library of Virginia
• Matthew Guillen, Cortina Productions

11: Accessibility, Memory, and Public Engagement BSC Ferrari Room

Moderator: James Herrera-Brookes, Virginia Museum of History & Culture

• Documenting Service: The VMHC Vietnam Oral History Project, Laura E. G. Stoner, Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Nicole Martorana, Virginia Museum of History & Culture
• In Their Own Words: Vietnam Veterans and the VWM Oral History Project, Sylvia Marshall, Virginia War Memorial

1:45 p.m.-3:15 p.m.      Concurrent Sessions III 

12: Virginia’s 20^th-Century Political Revolution: How an Old South State Turned New with Two-Party Competition, a Multi-hued Electorate, and Suburbanization BSC 118

Moderator: Nadine Zimmerli, University of Virginia Press

• Margaret Edds, Retired Columnist and Political Reporter, Virginian-Pilot; author, most recently, of What the Eyes Can’t See: Ralph Northam, Black Resolve, and a Racial Reckoning in Virginia
• Frank B. Atkinson, Frank B. Atkinson, Senior Advisor, McGuireWoods Consulting; author of, among other books, The Dynamic Dominion: Realignment and the Rise of Two-Party Competition in Virginia, 1945-1980
• Jeff E. Schapiro, Scholar, University of Virginia Center for Politics; politics analyst, Virginia Public Radio; retired politics columnist, Richmond Times-Dispatch

13: Mapping the Past, Understanding the Present: A Digital Humanities Workshop for Historical Thinking and Data Literacy Collaboratory, Pruitt Armory

• Annie Evans, University of Richmond
• Julian Maxwell Hayter, University of Richmond

14: Confederate Memorials & Public Memory BSC Ferrari Room

Moderator: Tom Costa, University of Virginia Wise

• Building the Backlash: Space, Race, and Memory in Charlottesville from Emancipation to Disenfranchisement Thomas Seabrook, George Mason University
• “Liberated by the People”: Activism on Richmond’s Confederate Landscape Evie Terrono, Randolph-Macon College
• The Buried Cause: Unearthing Hidden History in the Lee Monument Cornerstone Christina Vida, The Valentine

15:  Virginia and Virginians in the Revolution BSC 123 (BSAC) also on ZOOM

Moderator: Travis Shaw, Virginia Piedmont Heritage Area

• Just Recognition: The Service of the Virginia Continental Line in the South and Treatment of Veterans John C. Settle, Independent Researcher
• “More Dead than Alive:” Prisoners of War During the American Revolution Robert Nathan Garnett II, American Revolution Museum at Yorktown
• The Education of a General: Lafayette and the 1781 Virginia Campaign, John R. Maass, National Museum of the U.S. Army

3:15 p.m.-3:30 p.m. short break

3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.      Concurrent Session IV

16: Land, Liberty, and Loyalties: Indigenous Participation and Perspectives on the American Revolution in King William County  Collaboratory, Pruitt Armory

Moderator: Kate Enger, American Battlefield Trust

• Ashley A. Spivey, Kenah Consulting, LLC
• Katie R. Gibson, Kenah Consulting, LLC

17: Continuing the Civil Rights Revolution: The ACLU and Virginian’s Battles for Race and Gender Equality in the Late 1960s and 1970s BSC Ferrari Room

Moderator: Mari Julienne, Library of Virginia

• Lawyering Loving: The Thirteen-Year Battle from the Classroom to the Altar Eric Caplan, Wesleyan University
• Protest and Police Action in Virginia’s ERA Movement, Megan Taylor Shockley, Shockoe Institute
• Social Change: Betsy Brinson and the ACLU Southern Women’s Rights Project Jennifer Ritterhouse, George Mason University

18:  Hampden-Sydney College, The American Revolution, and the Early Republic BCS 118

Moderator: J. Michael Utzinger, Hampden-Sydney College

• From Academy to College: Hampden-Sydney in the Revolution, John C. Coombs, Hampden-Sydney College
• Climbing the Hill: African American History at Hampden-Sydney College Caroline s. Emmons, Hampden-Sydney College
• Between Athens and Jerusalem: Enlightenment Faith, Religious Revival, and the Shaping of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1820, Michael Utzinger, Hampden-Sydney College

 19: Teaching Virginia’s History and its Memory in the 21^st Century  BSC123 (BSAC) Also on ZOOM

Moderator: Dwana Waugh, Sweet Briar College

• George Oberle III, George Mason University
• Michaella Fraser Freshour, Sweet Briar College
• Jules Harris, Sweet Briar College
• Kris Nohe, George Mason University
• Andrew Snowman, George Mason University

Virginia Forum 20^th Anniversary Banquet BSC Ferrari Room

5:30-6:00 p.m. Reception with cash bar

6:00-6:45 p.m. Dinner

6:45-7:15 p.m. Dessert and special musical presentation by Gregg Kimball

7:15-7:45 p.m. Reflection on 20 Years of the Virginia Forum. Panel discussion with Warren Hofstra (Shenandoah University), Jeff Looney (Monticello), Mari Julienne (Library of Virginia), and Brent Tarter (Library of Virginia). Moderated by Jonathan A. Noyalas (Shenandoah University)

7:45-8:00 p.m. Concluding remarks  

Saturday, March 21

8:00 a.m. Registration Open

8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.     Concurrent Sessions V

20:Black Virginians in Resistance throughout the Long Nineteenth Century: Latest Books and Newest Trends BSC 123 (BSAC) Also on ZOOM

Organizer and Chair: Nadine Zimmerli, University of Virginia Press

• Moderator: Beth Colon Pizzini, University of Virginia Press
• Andrew Hammann, University of Richmond
• Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr., George Washington University
• Joseph P. Stinnett, The Roanoke Times
• Daniel B. Thorp, Virginia Tech

This session is sponsored by UVA Press

21: Revolutionary Loyalties and Landscapes Collaboratory, Pruitt Armory

Moderator: Sarah McCartney, College of William and Mary

• The Mason Family Account Book and Revolutionary Loudoun County, 1774-1783 Anne Champlin, George Mason University
• Traitors and Traders: The relationship Between History, Culture, and Anti- Scottish Sentiments in Revolutionary Virginia Emily Matthews, Randolph-Macon College
• Revolutionary Crises, Plantation Slavery, and the New Politics of Housing the Enslaved Douglas Sanford, Virginia Slave Housing Project
• “An Agreeable Companion, Prudent Mother, and Humane Mistress”: Ann Eilbeck Mason as the “Planter’s Wife” in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Alessandra Brooks DelDonna, George Mason University

22: The Civil War and its Legacies in and on Virginia BSC Ferrari Room

Moderator: Jim Broomall, University of Richmond

• “Nature Seems Putting Forth All Her Powers This Spring”: The Civil War Diary of Matella Cary Page Harrison as Environmental History, Dana Getka, Clarke County Historical Association
• “Increased the Confusion”: Sunlight, Darkness, and Tactical Vision on Virginia’s Civil War Battlefields Lucas Wilder, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
• Reflections on the Civil War from Roanoke County Elaine Powers, Virginia campus of the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine
• The Price of Loyalty: The Southern Claims Commission in the Shenandoah Valley, Jonathan Tracey, Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park

23: Segregation Legacies in Education BSC 118

Moderator: Brian Daugherity, Virginia Commonwealth University

• From Achievement Gaps to Opportunity: Reframing Education Inequality in Richmond, Virginia Orley Estrada, Virginia Commonwealth University
• “It’s a Battle for Our Last Legacy”: The Case of Preserving R. R. Moton Museum, Dwana Waugh, Sweet Briar College
• Storytelling, Resistance, and the Ongoing Struggle for Educational Justice in Madison County, VA, Nicole Terry

10:15 a.m.-11:45 a.m.   Concurrent Sessions VI

24: Broadcasting the Revolution: How Do We Communicate Historical Insights to Virginians during the 250^th? BSC 118

Moderator: Nadine Zimmerli, University of Virginia Press

• Jim Ambuske, More Perfect: InPursuit.org
• Kate Egner, American Battlefield Trust
• Cynthia A. Kierner, George Mason University
• George D. Oberle III, George Mason University

25:  Virginia’s Buried History  BSC Ferrari Room

Moderator: Lynn Rainville, Hidden History Group

• Segregation to Congregation: Black Placemaking In and Around Richmond’s Chimborazo Park in the Early- to Mid-Twentieth Century, Laura Fretwell, Florida Atlantic University
• Samuel Tardy’s Shame: The Children Buried in Unmarked Graves beside Douglas Southall Freeman in Hollywood Cemetery Kenneth Forest, Library of Virginia
• Unclaimed but No Longer Unnamed: Recovering the Identities of Prisoners Buried at Stoney Lonesome Cemetery Amy Bertsch, Independent Scholar

26: Race, Law, Conflict BSC 123 (BSAC) Also on ZOOM

Moderator: Peter Wallenstein, Virginia Tech

• Race, Gender, and Violence in Media Coverage of Virginia Lynching Victims: The Cases of Peb Falls and Charlotte Harris Paige Magoto, George Mason University
• “There were revolvers pulled and talks of lynching”: The Ashland Riot of 1902, Shawn D. McAvoy, Independent Scholar
• When Law Failed: Exploring an 1887 Lynching in Surry County, Virginia, Paula Hannaford-Agor, William & Mary Law School
• Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Lynda W. Wright, Randolph-Macon College

27: Manumission and Freedom Collaboratory, Pruitt Armory

 Moderator: Evie Terrono, Randolph-Macon College

• Revolutions and Resistance, Stephen A. Langeland, Liberty University
• Christian Witness through Manumission, Venture Ciccarelli, Liberty University
• Women’s Roles in Virginia Manumission, Sydney Gilbert, Liberty University
• Contradictions of Liberty: Sarah Strother’s Fight for Freedom, Ncholas Powers, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley

11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.     Lunch and Open Discussion on the Virginia Forum (all are welcome) BSC Ferrari Room

NO CONCURRENT SESSIONS to conflict with OPEN DISCUSSION

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.      Concurrent Sessions VII

28: Shenandoah Regional Studies BSC118

Moderator: Alison Hering, Independent Researcher  

• Born on the Wrong Side of the Blanket: Case Studies of Out-of-Wedlock Motherhood  Shenandoah County, VA 1850-1875, Susan Hines, Independent Researcher
• Midwifery Renaissance in the Shenandoah Valley, D’Anne Graham, Independent Researcher
• “A Final Struggle for the Salvation of the Country”: The Battle for Control of the Methodist Church in Winchester, Virginia, during Reconstruction, Sean A. Scott, The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities
• “Gets His Wife in a Jail Cell”: Annie Brent, Bob Firth, and a Jim Crow Crime Ring, Melanie Garvey, Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education

29: Rebellion and Secession in Greater Virginia Collaboratory, Pruitt Armory

Moderator: Barbara Batson, Library of Virginia

• “We Must Make the Best Use of Them”: The Virginia Military Institute and the Use of Black Confederate Troops Bradford A. Wineman, US Marine Corps Command & Staff College
• “Wherever Our Country’s Banner Floats in the Breeze”: Secession, Restoration, and U.S. Citizenship in Civil War Virginia, Randall S. Gooden, Clayton State University
• “Hell no, we won’t go…back:” The Rockingham Rebellion of 1862, Dale F. Harter, Independent Researcher

30: Historical Tourism then and Now

Moderator: Sheri Huerta, George Mason University BSC Ferrari Room

• Patriotic Phantoms: How is Ghostlore Used to Commemorate the Revolutionary War, Lynn Rainville, Hidden History Group
• Prisoners on Holiday in Revolutionary Era Virginia, Grant Quertermous, Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation
• Waltz with Washington, March at Mount Vernon, Alexandra Cade, Museum of the American Revolution

31: Uncovering New Virginia Biographies BSC 123 (BSAC) Also on ZOOM

Moderator: John Deal, Library of Virginia

• Spatializing Harriet Bell: Placemaking and Installing Legacies in Post-Emancipation Fairfax, Annabelle Spencer, George Mason University
• New Clues to the Early Life of Griffin Dobson, Free Man of Color, Catherine E. Saunders, George Mason University
• African American and Indigenous Soldiers in the Revolution, Ric Murphy, independent researcher
• Amplifying the Life and Legacy of Yvonne Bond Miller, Cydny A. Neville, Virginia Commonwealth University            

3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.  Closing Plenary Session with the Shenandoah Center for Immersive Learning  

Present in the Past: Exploring History with Immersive Learning Technologies. Nathan Prestopnik (Shenandoah University) and the Shenandoah Center for Immersive Learning (SCiL).

*Informal 20th Anniversary After Party, George Washington Hotel (5:00 p.m.–?) 103 East Piccadilly Street, Winchester*